5 Common Grant Writing Mistakes to Avoid

Career expert grant writers — who are truly worth their weight in gold — look at grant writing as an art form. Their craft requires full attention to quality proposal content with no room for error. Career grant writers live and breathe their work. They will study top rated proposals and the awarded proposals of their competitors, they will analyze the award trends of the funders they are pursuing to ensure their program designs align with funder award and denial patterns, and they will also take the time to study their successes and failures as grant writers.

Resource Associates’ interviewed its top ranking grant experts to find out what they think are the most common and not-so-common grant writing mistakes.